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In Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

EPISODE 162 | In Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
One of the great unsolved cases in FBI history is the tale of D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a commercial jet and then jumped out the door with a parachute and a bag full of cash. The story has been written about, films have been made, numerous “Mysteries of…” shows have had episodes about it, and there even a few songs that reference the famous gentleman thief of the Pacific Northwest.
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01:36 - Leaving on a Jet Plane - Dan Cooper hijacks a plane
10:38 - Jet Airliner - Notable hijackings, tracking Cooper (money, hair, fingerprints, sketches, DNA, Canadian comics and more)
25:19 - Come Fly with Me - Suspects: Duane Weber, Kenneth Christiansen, Paul Le Clair, Barbara Dayton, William Smith, Lyne Doyle Cooper, 
36:41 - Fly Away - More suspects: Ted Braden, Robert Rackstraw, Bryant Coffelt, Richard McCoy Jr, 
44:46 - Somewhere in the Sky - Ha Ha Ha, Cooper fans, "we know the middle", copycat Martin McNally, Raymond Sidney Russell, videos, cocktails and more
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Vroom Broom: Witches & Witch Hunts

EPISODE 161 | Vroom Broom: Witches & Witch Hunts
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, or women were burned alive in Salem, MA, at the end of the 17th century. Their crime? Being witches. That’s what many of us think, anyway. But just how much truth is there in all that? And what, exactly, is a witch? Are there any still around today? 
This episode comes in time for this year’s Walpurgis Night, which happens in Central Europe on April 30. Bonfires are made, effigies of witches are burned or thrown into rivers, and there is much feasting and, well, a lot of drinking. 
So, let’s talk witches, separating fact from fiction.
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01:40 - Salem Is a Spooky Massachusetts Witch City - The Salem Witch Trials
18:13 - Burn the Witch - A history of witch hunting, the Hammer of Witches, the Great Hunt, notable witch trials, swimming a witch 
27:27 - The Devils of Loudon
32:32 - The Spanish Inquisition
35:35 - Waking the Witch - Belief in witches, the witch-cult hypothesis, new Paganism and Wicca
43:47 - Miss Macbeth - Broomsticks, black cats, witches as marginalized people
Music by Fanette Ronjat
Related Episode
Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions (The World Is Weird 2)
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A Real Collusion

EPISODE 160 | A Real Collusion
Two political parties hardly seems sufficient for a nation of 342 million, and yet that's exactly the situation in the United States. How did that come to be, and why does it persist?
Author Stu Strumwasser explores those ideas with his new novel A Real Collusion as well as in this conversation. 
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A Real Collusion website
Stu Strumwasser website
 
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Maritime Mysteries

EPISODE 159 | Maritime Mysteries
It’s time to shiver yer timbers and batten down the hatches as we dive into a bucketful of mysteries at sea that have been hard to fathom in the past - the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, the Mary Celeste, and the Flying Dutchman. 
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01:20 - The Flannan Isles Lighthouse - Three men vanish and inspire lots of stories
06:31 - The Mary Celeste - The ship is found, speculations aplenty, Frederick Solly-Flood is a stubborn idiot, more theories, misinformation becomes legend, woo-woo enters the picture, 1968 disappearances, the ship is cursed, Gilman Parker hatches a scam, two recent theories
31:13 - The Flying Dutchman - The legend begins, the legend spreads, the Wandering Jew, Prince George of Wales sees it, Fata Morgana, looming, St. Elmo's Fire, other ghost ships
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Nasty NASA: The Challenger and Other Spacespiracies

EPISODE 158 | Nasty NASA: The Challenger and Other Spacespiracies
At 11:38 am  on January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on its 10th mission and 73 seconds later exploded, killing everyone on board. This was seen live on television by millions of people because a civilian teacher was one of the crew. 
At first, it was thought an external fuel tank had exploded. But after a thorough investigation, the real culprit turned out to be a faulty O-ring.
Over the years, more digging would uncover behind the scenes drama, some of which may have led to the disaster. And for some folks, conspiracy narratives started to circulate that the whole thing was fake, the crew was still alive, that it was aliens, that they slipped into a parallel dimension and so on.
Plus, NASA is often the target of conspironauts who think they know what’s “really” going on.
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01:54 - A Space Boy Dream - What happened with the Challenger explosion
17:07 - Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) - O-rings, organizational malfeasance, the CT that no one really died, a planned mass trauma, other CTs
32:18 - We Are All Made of Stars - The Untold Story of the Challenger Explosion: A Journey Through Time, Conspiracy, and Alternate Realities by David Moore, NASAHoax CTs: alien tech, Nibiru, Saturn Death Stars, the Mars Hoax, a hexagon on Saturn, straight lines in nature, 
43:27 - Space Junk - Skylab comes back down, the Skylab astronaut strike, general belief in science, we aren't all that bright
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Bohemian Books: Gigas, Voynich & Soyga

EPISODE 157 | Bohemian Books: Gigas, Voynich & Soyga
Some very old books have an air of mystery and intrigue about them. Partly, that’s because they are literally hundreds of years old, and partly because of the weird things they contain. 
Today, we’ll take a look at three, all of which have a connection to the Czech Republic and Prague: the biggest book in the world, the Codex Gigas (also known as the Devil’s Bible and which features heavily [no pun intended] in Dan Brown’s latest schlock fest), the utterly baffling Voynich Manuscript, which is not written in any recognizable language; and the mysterious Book of Soyga, which disappeared for nearly 400 years, and some say that if you can decipher the final puzzles in the book, you will die.
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02:11 - The Codex Gigas - That's a big book, contents, legend of origin, Sweden gets it, defenestrations, the Sedlec Bone Church, The Secret of Secrets
11:00 - The Voynich Manuscript - WTF is this thing?, ownership relay, who maybe wrote it, what maybe it says, aspects of Voynichese, obscure languages, steganography, glossolalia, outsider art, a hoax, radiocarbon dating, those who have claimed decipherment, ciphers, people see what they want to, goropism, the Sun Language Theory, recent videos about Alphafold and protein folding, maybe a work of proto-fiction
43:32 - The Book of Soyga - John Dee, Edward Kelley, cryptic puzzles, 400 years lost, found in 1994
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More Info
The Codex Gigas – Devil's Bible on the National Library of Sweden website
The Devil’s Bible: My Deep Dive into the Weirdest Book I’ve Ever Seen
Devil's Bible: Codex Gigas in Klementinum on Prague.net from 2007 loan
Inside the ‘Devil’s Bible,’ the Largest Medieval Manuscript Ever Made on ArtNet
EPISODE 109 | What's in a Name? The Shakespeare Authorship Debate with Scott Jackson
EPISODE 135 | On Shakey Ground: More Shakespeare Authorship with Scott Jackson
What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Communicating with Jennifer King on the Digital Signage Done Right podcast
Yale Library webpage on the Voynich Manuscript, with images
The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript on the BBC
Unsolved Mystery: The Voynich Manuscript
An entire website about the Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript revealed: five things you probably didn't know about the Medieval masterpiece on The Art Newspaper
THE VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT - "The Most Mysterious Manuscript in the World" - NSA report (PDF)
Another NSA report on titled The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma written in 1978 (PDF)
A PDF of the actual Voynich Manuscript
Headcanon: The Voynich Manuscript actually doesn’t contain any cohesive text and is just a prank done by someone in the past on r/medieval
A Scholar Has Cracked the Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript, the Encrypted Medieval Artwork That Defeated Codebreakers for Years on ArtNet
Article on the Voynich manuscript on Brazilian website Revista Pesquisa Fapesp
The Voynich Wiki
How an Emperor Trapped a Con Man - blog on Edward kelley
Magic and Mystery: Decoding the Secrets of the Book of Soyga on Discovery
The Book of Soyga translated by Jane Kupin (PDF)
Decoding the Book of Soyga: A Living Project of Esoteric Discovery
The Book of Soyga | Literary History on House of Cadmus
Soyga: the book that kills on Blog of Wonders
Holy Conversations: The Impact of the Mysterious Book of Soyga on Ancient Origins
Book of Soyga on the Voynich Wiki
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The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters

EPISODE 156 | The Shape of Water: Loch Ness and Other Lake Monsters
People have been talking about a supposed water creature in the Scottish Highlands for at least 93 years, possible much longer. Everyone has heard of the Loch Ness Monster, and Nessie is one of the OGs of the cryptid world. But there are plenty of other, similar reports from around the world as well, like Ogopogo, Manipogo, Cressie, Kushii, Nahuelito and even one named Larry.
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01:21 - Down to the Waterline - First sightings of Nessie; photos, corpses, hoaxes and jokes
16:19 - Creature from the Black Lagoon - The Wels catfish, Loch Ness is weird, serious expeditions, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, Operation Deepscan, a DNA survey of the loch, eels, Norag, Muc-sheilche, kelpie, Life of St. Columba, Fredrick William Holiday and The Great Orm of Loch Ness (and more)
32:10 - Lake of Fire - Sea serpents, Hydrarchos, Canada's Ogopogo
40:20 - Down by the Water - Igopogo (or Bessie), Manipogo, Winnepogo, Memphré, Champ, Mussie, Cressie, Chessie, the Turtle Lake Monster, the Seelkee
48:05 - Song of the Lake - Mokele-mbembe, the Great Zimbabwe Theory
51:08 - Don't Drink the Water - Lukwata, Nsanga, Nyami Nyami, Irizma, Kusshii, the Lake Tianchi Monster, Phaya Naga, Seri Gumum, the Bunyip, the Muldjewangk, the Hawkesbury River Monster, the Maningrida Monster (Mannie), the Taniwha, the Tsmok, Anguila Peluda, the Lariosauro (Larry), the Lagarfljót Worm, the Gryttie, the Zegrze Reservoir Monster, Teggie, the the Devil Whale of Lake Tota, Nahuelito, people naturally attach to stories
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More Info
Episode 99 | A Bridge Too Far: The Mothman Visits Point Pleasant
Episode 132 | Keel Hauled: UAP Update
Loch Ness monster on Britannica
The Loch Ness Monster Turns 83: The Story of The Surgeon’s Photograph
The Beast of Loch Ness pages on Nova Online
Loch Ness Monster on Non-alien Creatures Wiki 
Lake Monsters on Cryptid Wiki
The Lake Monsters of America on Atlas Obscura (with map)
Lake Monsters on A Book of Creatures
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Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb

EPISODE 155 | Mummy Mia: King Tut's Tomb
Guest: Neil Laird, Emmy-nominated TV producer (Discovery, BBC, PBS, History, National Geographic), author of the Prime Time novel series
Since its discovery in 1922, the tomb of King Tut has captivated people, with research simply leading to more questions? How did he die? Was he murdered? Was he really born in Arizona and later moved to Babylonia? And is there a curse?
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03:09 - The discovery, the Curse of the Pharaohs, the Toxic Tomb theory
13:47 - The first autopsy (1925), the Boy King; mummies were not worth much; the second autopsy with X-rays (1968), was he murdered?; the third autopsy (2005) with CAT scans; accidental death?, walking canes, did he have a clubfoot?
24:06 - A new investigation, new evidence, a new theory
30:44 - Hidden chambers in the tomb, possibly Nefertiti, underground scans
36:01 - The mass appeal of historical treasures, Deir el-Medina - the lost village of the artisans and the Great Pit
43:25 - The Egyptians and the West have an uneasy history, the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
45:35 - Egypt is his obsession
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More Info
Episode 59 - Atlas Sank: Titanic Conspiracies 
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)
Prime Time novels
Neil Laird on IMDb
Lost Treasures of Egypt (2019-2025)
Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Tomb (2022)
Tut's Toxic Tomb (2022)
Tut: A Century of Secrets (2022)
Tut's Lost City Revealed (2022)
Valley of the Queens (2021)
Valley of the Kings: The Lost Tombs (2021)
Lost Tombs of the Pyramids (2020)
Cleopatra: Sex, Lies and Secrets (2020) 
Tut's Final Secrets (2020)
Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs (2019)
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
Egypt: What Lies Beneath (2011)
National Geographic: King Tut's Final Secrets (2005)
Into the Great Pyramid (2002)
Saving the Sphinx (1998)
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Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?

EPISODE 154 | Forgotten Languages (FL): The Most Interesting Site on the Web?
While researching a previous episode about internet rabbit holes, I came across one that was some big, so complicated, that the entry soon grew into its very own episode. It's called Forgotten Languages, and at first it seems like it's all about ancient languages. But these turn out to be ciphers which, when decoded, reveal a series of interlocking narratives involving transdimensional beings, UAPs, aliens, secretive cabals working at cross purposes, the odd revelation that all humans are gone by the year 3100, and more. 
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02:00 - Speaking in Tongues - The Forgotten Languages website at first glance, using clues to start to understand, language as a system to modify biology
13:36 - Aliens Ate My Buick - Giselians, the Cassini Diskus, Paradigm Shifter Vehicles (PSVs) 
18:55 - Nature of Threat - The Phoenix Lights, MilOrbs, USOs, SV17q, SV09n's agendas, SV06n seems nicer, the default mode network (DMN), geminoviruses in the year 2100
33:55 - Jigsaw Falling into Place - DRACO, Congressional UAP hearings, Matthew Brown blows the whistle on Immaculate Constellation and a secretive group (SV17q?), DOLYN; Michael Shellenberger specifically mentions NURO, Immaculate Constellation and SV17q to Congress; Denebian probes, LyAV, XVIS
44:46 - Hoist That Rag - Alternative Reality games, Dispatches from Elsewhere, "The Beast", the SCP Foundation, other theories about FL
48:36 - Language Is a Virus - Various theories about what FL is really all about, the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU), hyperstitions
Music by Fanette Ronjat
More Info
Forgotten Languages website
ForgottenLanguages.org — another linguistic rabbit hole on Reddit
The Deepest Internet Mystery You've Never Heard Of (and Why It’s Now in the Congressional Record) video on the smoothjazz YouTube channel
My emails with Ayndryl by Saša Milić
Forgotten Languages entire subreddit
The Pattern Everyone's Missing While Debating "Dee's Nuts" on the r/UFOs subreddit
Dispatches from Elsewhere on IMDb
SCP Foundation website
Cybernetic culture research unit website
Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) on Philosophyball WIki
Forward? A Short History of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit by Samuel McIlhagga
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Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (WIW 16)

EPISODE 153 | Broken Arrows and Other Nuclear Boo-Boos (World Is Weird 16)
One reason conspiracy theories flourish is that sometimes there really are secrets kept back from the public, only revealed later. Take Broken Arrows - accidents involving nuclear weapons, near-misses that could have become incredibly serious but, fortunately, didn’t. 
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02:45 - Intro - A brief history of nukes, US military flagwords and other terminology
07:54 - We Will All Go Together When We Go - 1950s incidents
25:33 - We'll Meet Again - 1960s incidents
39:01 - Atomic Dog - Incidents in the 1970s and 1980s
46:23 - Champagne Supernova - Incidents in the 1990s to present, the Doomsday Clock
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More Info
Broken Arrows: Nuclear Weapons Accidents on the Atomic Archive
United States military nuclear incident terminology on Wikipedia
List of military nuclear accidents on Wikipedia
The Doomsday Clock
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